Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Friday, June 25, 2010 10:05:06 PM
The Crab is angry with the NRA (in a related story, Hell hosts ice skating championships). Rather than standing up for the free speech rights of all Americans, they have reportedly made a shady bargain with the free-speech crushers, in what a modern Winston Churchill would call appeasement. Our would-be masters on the left cannot be appeased, and normally the NRA's leadership is savvy enough to recognize this. Predictably, this has raised a bit of an uproar. HC here decided to let the gun good guys know that there's a problem brewing in NRAville, so I sent them this message:
Like many other members and freedom lovers, I am surprised and disgusted at the deal you cut with the sponsors of the DISCLOSE Act. Have you forgotten that members of the NRA are members of other organizations, too, which may be muzzled by this foul act? At a time when groups like the Business Roundtable are discovering that they were swindled in their deals with the health care "reform" sponsors, you are gullible enough to make a deal with the same swindlers? How long do you think your "carve-out" will last? Don't you understand that the gun-banners you're dealing with will wipe out the exception at the first opportunity?
You also claim to be a single-issue organization, representing the 2nd Amendment right before protecting the rights of the 1st Amendment. Each right protects the other. If we lose one, we will lose the other inevitably. If we expect any others to stand with us when our rights are threatened, we must stand with them, not allow ourselves to be bought by such shoddy deals.
If this bill becomes a freedom-strangulating law, without your utmost exertions against it, I will never send any of your network of organizations another dime! I suspect that many others will decide likewise. I will use the remaining time on my membership to find another gun owners group -- one that understands that are rights stand or fall together, and that to preserve the God-given constitutional rights of ours we must protect those same rights for all!
Sincerely,
The Hermit Crab
I was pleased to receive a quick reply, but not so pleased when I read the response. It is apparently a form response, and it's obvious that the form letter department at NRA headquarters needs lots of practice or new blood. (Make that brains). Read this:
This got the Crab's goat (not as difficult as it sounds), and I sent this response:
Dear Kyle,
Thanks for responding, although I dislike the implied insult that I hadn't read the NRA's topkicks' statements before I composed my note. I also note that you entirely failed to address any of the points I raised. I note that the date on the NRA's letter to Congress is May 26th, before the ill-judged "carve-out" was negotiated. We expect the NRA to fight for the rights of all Americans, not to engage in favor-seeking and slick dealing. If the leaders believe otherwise, then they should step aside for men with iron in their spines, like Ted Nugent and the late Charlton Heston.
The Hermit Crab